George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
wind carrie feathers
Words and feathers the wind carries away.
sheep wind giving
To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.
fire wind kindles
A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
flames wind poetry
As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.
life pairs windmills
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
wind mills
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
window ready fairs
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
wind sides
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
wind soul affliction
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening
crazy wind ships
To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.
wise wind faces
The wind in ones face makes one wise.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.